Park City Mathematics Institute
Secondary School Teachers Program
Summer 2010
Techstravaganza

 

Cal led a discussion about various technologies folks use in their classrooms. The group notes on GoogleDocs are also noted here.
4:30
College prof in Michigan:
http://teachingcollegemath.com/
*blogs on practical uses of WolframAlpha and other Web2.0 tools
*does focus on pedagogy and assessment
 
Lesson plans on WolframAlpha
http://www.scribd.com/Pearson%20Math%20Stats
 
Teaching Undergraduate Math Wiki (includes Algebra, Precalculus, Calculus & Linear Algebra)
http://walphawiki.wikidot.com/introduction
 
Using tech to record student voices:
http://www.voicethread.com
 
Image and video-capture for faculty and students, demonstrated by Cal this morning. He uses this to capture student work with his tablets:
http://www.jingproject.com/
 
This site offers some great little videos in a very organized format to explain a huge range of concepts from Algebra 1 (& 2, really...). (Bowen's former student made it! How cool is that?!):
http://www.virtualnerd.com/ (subscription required)
 
I like to recommend that students who missed my class or can't come in for extra help try out the follow free site -- it has great videos, but can be hard to navigate:
http://www.khanacademy.org
 
Math Open Reference http://mathopenref.com
Animations, step by step text instructions and reference materials for geometry
 
Grading Tools
http://www.gradepad.com/home.php ($2.99 on AppStore)
http://snapgrades.net/
 
Group work Grading for google docs
 
Practicing Proofs online (Two - Column format)
http://feromax.com/cgi-bin/ProveIt.pl
 
Zach Korzyk's website for Algebra 2/Trig - helps students practice rote drills. Talk to Zach for more detail!
http://www.mvamath.com
 
Some nice problems presented as posters from nrich
http://nrich.maths.org/6840?setlocale=en_US